Pub Date : 2021-03-02DOI: 10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111680
Senny Plantika, Aryuliva Adnan
This study aimed was to discover the level and the type of speaking anxiety among the student in speaking, and also to discover the correlation between speaking anxiety and their speaking ability at second-year students of English Department UNP. The correlation research was used in this research. The person who takes part inactivity of this research was 20 students of speaking class at English Department UNP in the academic year 2018. Questionnaire and interview were utilized in this examination to measure the correlation between the two aspects. The questionnaire was Foreign Language Anxiety Classroom Scale (FLCAS). Fear of negative evaluation was identified as the type of speaking anxiety, and the level of their speaking anxiety categorized at a medium level. After calculated the two aspects using SPSS 2.0, the result shows there is a negative correlation between students' speaking anxiety and their speaking ability. And it is correlated at -0.498 which means the correlation is in a moderate correlation.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-02DOI: 10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111744
R. Afrina, Havid Ardi
This research aims to find out the strategies that were used by low, medium, and high-level students English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang in interpreting an English short speech into Bahasa Indonesia consecutively. The subject of this research was the third-year students of English Department who had taken English-Indonesia interpreting class. The sample was 23% were chosen out of 53 students by random sampling technique. The data were collected using an interpreting test consecutively via zoom meeting. The results show that the dominant strategy used by low-level students was the skipping strategy it was about 49 times used by the students during the test, it means (33.8%) out of the students used this strategy. Then, the dominant strategy was used by medium level students was skipping 29 times used by the students during the test or (20.86%) out of the students. Last, students in high level dominant used explicitation strategy 41 times used by the students during the interpreting test or (28.87%) out of the students. It could be concluded that students find it difficult to comprehend the source language; it proves that students skip the SL 86 times during the interpreting test, which was about 20.67%. Students in the low and medium level tend to use the skipping strategy, but students in the high level tend to repair and make the interpretation clearly by using explicitation strategy.
{"title":"Students' Strategy In consecutive Interpreting a Short Motivation Speech into Bahasa Indonesia","authors":"R. Afrina, Havid Ardi","doi":"10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111744","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to find out the strategies that were used by low, medium, and high-level students English Department of Universitas Negeri Padang in interpreting an English short speech into Bahasa Indonesia consecutively. The subject of this research was the third-year students of English Department who had taken English-Indonesia interpreting class. The sample was 23% were chosen out of 53 students by random sampling technique. The data were collected using an interpreting test consecutively via zoom meeting. The results show that the dominant strategy used by low-level students was the skipping strategy it was about 49 times used by the students during the test, it means (33.8%) out of the students used this strategy. Then, the dominant strategy was used by medium level students was skipping 29 times used by the students during the test or (20.86%) out of the students. Last, students in high level dominant used explicitation strategy 41 times used by the students during the interpreting test or (28.87%) out of the students. It could be concluded that students find it difficult to comprehend the source language; it proves that students skip the SL 86 times during the interpreting test, which was about 20.67%. Students in the low and medium level tend to use the skipping strategy, but students in the high level tend to repair and make the interpretation clearly by using explicitation strategy.","PeriodicalId":149821,"journal":{"name":"Journal on English Language Teaching","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114382330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-02DOI: 10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111518
Frisca Yolanda, M. Zaim
The purpose of this research is to find out types of process and the most dominant process types of transitivity system, and to find out types of circumstances and the most dominant types of circumstances in Hortatory Exposition Text written by the third year student of English Education Program at Universitas Negeri Padang. The data of this research were collected through a writing test on hortatory exposition. It found 866 clauses that were obtained from 23 texts of hortatory exposition texts. The result of this research was that six types of processes occurred in the text. There were material process (59%), mental process (12%), relational process (23%), behavioral process (2%), verbal process (2%), and existential process (3%). It was found that types of material processes were the dominant process found in students' writing. Also, the result of this research found eight types of circumstances, there were Extent (6%), Location (36%), Manner (24%), Cause (26%), Accompaniment (4%), role (2%), matter (1%) and Angel (1%). The dominant types of circumstances were Location. It indicates that the characteristics of hortatory exposition text are using the material process and circumstances of Location.
{"title":"Transitivity Analysis of Hortatory Exposition Written by Third Years Student of English Education Program at Universitas Negeri Padang.","authors":"Frisca Yolanda, M. Zaim","doi":"10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111518","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this research is to find out types of process and the most dominant process types of transitivity system, and to find out types of circumstances and the most dominant types of circumstances in Hortatory Exposition Text written by the third year student of English Education Program at Universitas Negeri Padang. The data of this research were collected through a writing test on hortatory exposition. It found 866 clauses that were obtained from 23 texts of hortatory exposition texts. The result of this research was that six types of processes occurred in the text. There were material process (59%), mental process (12%), relational process (23%), behavioral process (2%), verbal process (2%), and existential process (3%). It was found that types of material processes were the dominant process found in students' writing. Also, the result of this research found eight types of circumstances, there were Extent (6%), Location (36%), Manner (24%), Cause (26%), Accompaniment (4%), role (2%), matter (1%) and Angel (1%). The dominant types of circumstances were Location. It indicates that the characteristics of hortatory exposition text are using the material process and circumstances of Location.","PeriodicalId":149821,"journal":{"name":"Journal on English Language Teaching","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128928727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-02DOI: 10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111740
Rani Belviati, W. Oktavia
The purpose of the research is to find out whether or not the PLEASE strategy is effective in the students’ ability in writing analytical exposition text at the second year of SMAN 1 Gunung Talang. This research uses a quantitative with quasi-experimental research with Pre-Test and Post-Test Control Group Design. The populations in this research were second year students’ of SMAN 1 Gunung Talang who were registered in the January-June period of the 2020/2021 school year. The research sample was 35 students of class XI IPA 1 as the experimental class and 35 students of class XI IPS 4 as the control class. The results of the analysis indicated that the mean of post-test score 85.37 was higher than the mean of pre-test score 67.23. Thus, in this research, the test scores were compared using of the t-test formula to determine the effectiveness of using PLEASE strategy ability in writing. Based on the data analysis and the results of the t-test, it was concluded that learning using PLEASE strategy was give the better effect to students ability in writing analytical exposition text at SMAN 1 Gunung Talang because t count < t table at a significant level of 0.05. So, it was concluded that the teaching of writing in the second year students of SMAN 1 Gunung Talang by using PLEASE strategy was better effect than without using PLEASE strategy. Keywords: PLEASE strategy, writing ability, analytical exposition
本研究的目的是要找出PLEASE策略是否有效的学生在第二年的分析性论述文的写作能力在SMAN 1 Gunung Talang。本研究采用定量与准实验相结合的研究方法，采用前测与后测对照组设计。本研究的人群是在2020/2021学年1月至6月期间注册的SMAN 1 Gunung Talang的二年级学生。分析结果显示，测后得分的平均值85.37高于测前得分的平均值67.23。因此，在本研究中，使用t检验公式对测试分数进行比较，以确定在写作中使用请策略能力的有效性。根据数据分析和t检验的结果，我们可以得出结论，由于t计数< t表，在0.05的显著水平上，使用PLEASE策略学习对SMAN 1 Gunung Talang学生的分析性论述文写作能力有更好的效果。综上所述，采用PLEASE策略对小学二年级学生的写作教学效果优于不采用PLEASE策略的学生。关键词:PLEASE策略，写作能力，分析性论述
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Pub Date : 2021-03-02DOI: 10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111378
A. Rahma, R. N. Rosa
The purpose of the research is to figure out the students’ ability in constructing compound-complex sentence in essays writing. The design used in this research is descriptive research with second year students of English language educational program of UNP as the research population. There were 30 students taken as the sample selected by using cluster sampling technique in K5-2018 class. The data were collected through documents of students’ essay writing. The essays were analyzed by the researcher, and it was revised by a valuator and two raters as the validity and reliability of this research. They are the lecturers of English department at UniversitasNegeri Padang. The finding shows that the ability of students in writing compound-complex sentence is in the level of good with the average percentage 79.18%. Most students generally can make compound-complex sentences in their essays writing, but they have problems in: 1) incorrect use of punctuation, especially comma, 2) lacks a subject or a verb in the compound-complex sentence. Therefore, an intensive attention should be given by the lecturer to facilitate the students to practice both writing and grammar by using peer correction.
{"title":"An Analysis on Students’ Ability in Using Compound-Complex Sentences in Writing a Short Essay","authors":"A. Rahma, R. N. Rosa","doi":"10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24036/JELT.V10I1.111378","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the research is to figure out the students’ ability in constructing compound-complex sentence in essays writing. The design used in this research is descriptive research with second year students of English language educational program of UNP as the research population. There were 30 students taken as the sample selected by using cluster sampling technique in K5-2018 class. The data were collected through documents of students’ essay writing. The essays were analyzed by the researcher, and it was revised by a valuator and two raters as the validity and reliability of this research. They are the lecturers of English department at UniversitasNegeri Padang. The finding shows that the ability of students in writing compound-complex sentence is in the level of good with the average percentage 79.18%. Most students generally can make compound-complex sentences in their essays writing, but they have problems in: 1) incorrect use of punctuation, especially comma, 2) lacks a subject or a verb in the compound-complex sentence. Therefore, an intensive attention should be given by the lecturer to facilitate the students to practice both writing and grammar by using peer correction.","PeriodicalId":149821,"journal":{"name":"Journal on English Language Teaching","volume":"63 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116885087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is considered a useful framework for strategy instruction. Teachers play a key role in designing and implementing strategy instruction; however, strategy instruction in teacher preparation program has been given less concern. Factors such as curriculum constraints, transmissive style of teaching strategies in the classroom etc. put strategy instruction in teacher education in a rather difficult position. Thus, with theoretical basis of SRL, this study proposes an alternative approach of strategy instruction in a blended learning environment to offer some insights into a strategy instructional program for teacher training. It is expected to provide an experiential and active learning experience for pre-service teachers to promote their own use of strategies in language learning as well as their knowledge of learning strategy and strategy instruction. The current article presents the results of needs analysis and describes the program’s theoretical foundation, design guidelines and outlines the program structure. Article visualizations:
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Group work is believed to be one of the possible solutions to the problem of dealing with large number of students within one speaking class. However, how students perceive group work in their EFL speaking classes is an area that needs to be researched. This study looks at how students perceive group work in their speaking classes and their preference of being given a specific role in a given speaking task that involves working in a group. A questionnaire has been distributed to 42 students to highlight their perceptions towards group work. Results from this study revealed that EFL students seem to like the idea of working in groups in their speaking classes as they reported a number of benefits that they gain when they work in groups, for example, they feel more independent, they have a chance to share ideas, and they speak English in most of the time in the class. However, a number of drawbacks have been also reported by the students, for example, the domination of one student in the group, some students find it difficult to work in a group of mixed gender, and low level students sometimes feel frustrated to work in group. Article visualizations:
{"title":"THE PERCEPTIONS OF LIBYAN EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS TOWARDS THE USE OF GROUP WORK IN THEIR SPEAKING CLASSES","authors":"Imad Waragh, Hamdi Suwaed","doi":"10.46827/EJEL.V6I3.3595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46827/EJEL.V6I3.3595","url":null,"abstract":"Group work is believed to be one of the possible solutions to the problem of dealing with large number of students within one speaking class. However, how students perceive group work in their EFL speaking classes is an area that needs to be researched. This study looks at how students perceive group work in their speaking classes and their preference of being given a specific role in a given speaking task that involves working in a group. A questionnaire has been distributed to 42 students to highlight their perceptions towards group work. Results from this study revealed that EFL students seem to like the idea of working in groups in their speaking classes as they reported a number of benefits that they gain when they work in groups, for example, they feel more independent, they have a chance to share ideas, and they speak English in most of the time in the class. However, a number of drawbacks have been also reported by the students, for example, the domination of one student in the group, some students find it difficult to work in a group of mixed gender, and low level students sometimes feel frustrated to work in group. Article visualizations:","PeriodicalId":149821,"journal":{"name":"Journal on English Language Teaching","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125684781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The present study is a comparison between the impact of rhetorical argumentation and narrating stories on students’ fluency and accuracy in communicative competence. We aimed at evaluating the usefulness and suitability of these tasks, and their efficiency when it comes to teaching fluency and accuracy by analysing the direct effects of the tasks on the indices of fluency and accuracy. The problematic issue in this research investigates the effects of the task rhetorical argumentation, and whether it is an important task that teachers should rely on it in teaching speaking in academic contexts. The sample is composed of 65 students which are divided in between 30 students in the control group and 35 students in experimental group. The data was collected by a test which was used to evaluate three main areas which are: classroom interaction, topic knowledge and language knowledge. The results of the experiment show that there are two types of fluency which are procedural and automatic. Rhetorical argumentation can be used to develop procedural fluency, and not automatic since the task is considered as difficult and students were not familiar with it.
{"title":"The Impact of Rhetorical Argumentation on Achieving the Mastery of Fluency and Accuracy in Communicative Competence: A Case Study of 2 nd Year Students at the University Des Frères Mentouri, Constantine","authors":"Abderrahim Bouderbane","doi":"10.5430/IJELT.V8N1P1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5430/IJELT.V8N1P1","url":null,"abstract":"The present study is a comparison between the impact of rhetorical argumentation and narrating stories on students’ fluency and accuracy in communicative competence. We aimed at evaluating the usefulness and suitability of these tasks, and their efficiency when it comes to teaching fluency and accuracy by analysing the direct effects of the tasks on the indices of fluency and accuracy. The problematic issue in this research investigates the effects of the task rhetorical argumentation, and whether it is an important task that teachers should rely on it in teaching speaking in academic contexts. The sample is composed of 65 students which are divided in between 30 students in the control group and 35 students in experimental group. The data was collected by a test which was used to evaluate three main areas which are: classroom interaction, topic knowledge and language knowledge. The results of the experiment show that there are two types of fluency which are procedural and automatic. Rhetorical argumentation can be used to develop procedural fluency, and not automatic since the task is considered as difficult and students were not familiar with it.","PeriodicalId":149821,"journal":{"name":"Journal on English Language Teaching","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115090116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Teaching ESL/EFL in a rather small, developing country has its challenges – most of the schools do not have proper IT equipment and the students are taught in the same way as students were over 20 years ago. With technology on the rise, the need for a technology-aided teaching process has become evident. Students expect certain technology-based activities during the teaching process. But, unfortunately, such activities cannot be implemented with the existing conditions. With the rise of the Covid-19, remote teaching became the sole teaching model in multiple countries, North Macedonia not being the exception. As teaching remotely slowly became the norm, students, some for the first time ever, took part in technology-aided activities and thoroughly enjoyed them. Although the pandemic has brought many disadvantages to education, one unforeseen advantage arose – students in North Macedonia engaged in online games and different activities that made ESL/EFL more interesting and exciting for them. This paper aimed to research students’ opinion on ESL/EFL classes during the pandemic. A questionnaire was administered to two classes of year 2 students from a local high school in Bitola, North Macedonia. The results showed that students find online classes interesting, due to the online activities that they find engaging and that they would appreciate more such activities during real-life teaching. Article visualizations:
{"title":"THE UNFORESEEN ADVANTAGES OF REMOTE ESL/EFL CLASSES","authors":"Elena Shalevska","doi":"10.46827/EJEL.V6I3.3557","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46827/EJEL.V6I3.3557","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching ESL/EFL in a rather small, developing country has its challenges – most of the schools do not have proper IT equipment and the students are taught in the same way as students were over 20 years ago. With technology on the rise, the need for a technology-aided teaching process has become evident. Students expect certain technology-based activities during the teaching process. But, unfortunately, such activities cannot be implemented with the existing conditions. With the rise of the Covid-19, remote teaching became the sole teaching model in multiple countries, North Macedonia not being the exception. As teaching remotely slowly became the norm, students, some for the first time ever, took part in technology-aided activities and thoroughly enjoyed them. Although the pandemic has brought many disadvantages to education, one unforeseen advantage arose – students in North Macedonia engaged in online games and different activities that made ESL/EFL more interesting and exciting for them. This paper aimed to research students’ opinion on ESL/EFL classes during the pandemic. A questionnaire was administered to two classes of year 2 students from a local high school in Bitola, North Macedonia. The results showed that students find online classes interesting, due to the online activities that they find engaging and that they would appreciate more such activities during real-life teaching. \u0000 \u0000 Article visualizations:","PeriodicalId":149821,"journal":{"name":"Journal on English Language Teaching","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125774268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feelings of fear, anxiety, and worry make the learning of ESL / EFL difficult as learners’ focus is being interrupted. Writing; whether in first or second language, is considered a difficult process. The arousal of negative psychological experience in a second/foreign language writing is known as foreign language writing anxiety. As such, the underlying causes of ESL / EFL anxiety need to be understood to ensure a smooth language writing process for ESL / EFL learners. This study aims to investigate the level, types, and causes of writing anxiety among the students in a Chinese Independent Middle School. A convenience sample total of 30 Chinese Independent Middle School students were purposely chosen to participate in this study. This research adopted two survey questionnaires; Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) by Cheng (2004) and Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI) by Rezaeia & Jafari (2014). The findings revealed that these students experience a high level of cognitive anxiety, moderate level of somatic anxiety, and low level of avoidance behaviour. It is discovered that the level of writing anxiety being experienced by the students is at the level of moderate to high anxiety. Meanwhile, in terms of the causal factor for writing anxiety, the results reported high means scores for each causal of writing anxiety theme are 'afraid of writing tests' for negative writing experience theme, 'feel worried to write under time constraints' for negative writing attitude theme and 'often encounter some linguistic problems' for limit writing knowledge and skill theme. The researcher proposed some strategies that could be used in reducing ESL writing anxiety which are: process writing approach, affective strategies, positive error correction, and vocabulary knowledge enhancement. Article visualizations:
{"title":"AN INVESTIGATIVE STUDY ON THE TYPES AND CAUSES OF ESL WRITING ANXIETY: A CASE STUDY OF LEARNERS FROM A CHINESE INDEPENDENT MIDDLE SCHOOL","authors":"Toh Chieh Wern, Noor Hanim Rahmat","doi":"10.46827/EJEL.V6I3.3553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46827/EJEL.V6I3.3553","url":null,"abstract":"Feelings of fear, anxiety, and worry make the learning of ESL / EFL difficult as learners’ focus is being interrupted. Writing; whether in first or second language, is considered a difficult process. The arousal of negative psychological experience in a second/foreign language writing is known as foreign language writing anxiety. As such, the underlying causes of ESL / EFL anxiety need to be understood to ensure a smooth language writing process for ESL / EFL learners. This study aims to investigate the level, types, and causes of writing anxiety among the students in a Chinese Independent Middle School. A convenience sample total of 30 Chinese Independent Middle School students were purposely chosen to participate in this study. This research adopted two survey questionnaires; Second Language Writing Anxiety Inventory (SLWAI) by Cheng (2004) and Causes of Writing Anxiety Inventory (CWAI) by Rezaeia & Jafari (2014). The findings revealed that these students experience a high level of cognitive anxiety, moderate level of somatic anxiety, and low level of avoidance behaviour. It is discovered that the level of writing anxiety being experienced by the students is at the level of moderate to high anxiety. Meanwhile, in terms of the causal factor for writing anxiety, the results reported high means scores for each causal of writing anxiety theme are 'afraid of writing tests' for negative writing experience theme, 'feel worried to write under time constraints' for negative writing attitude theme and 'often encounter some linguistic problems' for limit writing knowledge and skill theme. The researcher proposed some strategies that could be used in reducing ESL writing anxiety which are: process writing approach, affective strategies, positive error correction, and vocabulary knowledge enhancement. \u0000 \u0000 Article visualizations:","PeriodicalId":149821,"journal":{"name":"Journal on English Language Teaching","volume":"144 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131838507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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